androidperformancegpioraspberry-pi3android-things

What is Android Things Raspberry Pi GPIO max frequency?

Where can be found the characteristics of the switching speed of GPIO port for the Raspberry Pi 3 under Android Things like that?

Solution

  • In DP2 there is two ways to control GPIO:

    1) with SDK using java (analyzed by Harry Fairhead here);

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    2) with NDK using C/C++ (analyzed by Harry Fairhead here).

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    With SDK using java the fastest pulses seen are around 0.23ms and there are lots of large (up to 8ms) interruptions (!!!) in the pulse train. And with NDK using C/C++ the pulse width is reduced from 0.23ms to just around 0.15ms.

    Conclusion: Android Things DP2 Raspberry Pi GPIO max frequency is about 3 kHz, that is not fast enough to write drivers that interface to most not supported "from the box" protocols.